New Long scale EB2D called the Midtown

[chromium]

Gibson employees are already hard at work on the Midtown bass' electronics - feverishly winding inductor coils for the baritone switches...



 

[Aussie Mark]

Google draws a blank on this thing - yet they are already in stores?  Bizarre.  Great marketing, Gibson!

[the mojo hobo]

The guitars are in the stores, not basses. Same as the non-reverse Firebirds are in the stores, but the Thunderbirds not yet.

Google: Gibson Midtown

[the mojo hobo]

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Designer/Gibson-USA/Midtown-Standard-P-90.aspx

Read the description. It's not a hollowbody, it's a chambered mahogany body with a maple top.

You'll love the feel of the new Midtown body shape. Larger than your typical solidbody but smaller than a hollowbody, the Midtown feels just right cradled in your arms. And the '60s Slim-Taper neck gives you the comfortable playability you expect from a Gibson

[Dave W]

That helps explain why they introduced Midtown guitars when they already have the 335 shapes covered. That would hardly even be considered a semihollow, at least not in the same sense as an EB-2/335. Nothing wrong with that construction, though.

Edit: looks like the ES-335, and other ES models are now only offered in the Gibson Custom series.

[eb2]

So it's built like a Les Paul Standard with chunked out mahogany.  I am still cool with that. I don't really gak over the tiny 335 body.  I would prefer a regular ES-335 with a big chunk of maple inside, but this is ok. I am still keeping my hopes up!  It will probably sound a bit like the nr Tbird I am guessing with long scale and glued into a piece of mahogany.